Are you there, God? It’s him, Bruce. 2003’s Bruce Almighty featured an all-star forged — together with Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell and Jennifer Aniston — and memorable scenes that also depart viewers roaring with laughter as we speak.
After information anchor Bruce Nolan (Carrey) will get handed over for a promotion at work — a job that notably goes to Evan Baxter (Carell) — he’s satisfied God (Freeman) has it out for him. In response, God offers Bruce all of his powers, resulting in the form of laugh-out-loud hijinks solely a forged of this caliber may pull off.
When talking about working with Aniston — who portrayed Bruce’s girlfriend, Grace Connelly — Carrey gushed over his love for the Friends alum.
“She’s tremendous. We work well off each other because Jennifer is a completely different person than me,” the Liar, Liar actor advised BlackFilm.com in 2003. “I’m a person who just throws myself out there and does wild stuff and she’s like the center of the wheel. She’s the type of person that can sit there and allow things to come to her. I seek them out and destroy them. It’s a wonderful kind of mix.”
One of the comedy’s most-talked-about scenes is the bit the place Bruce — with the powers of God — makes an attempt to sabotage Evan’s profession by having him communicate nothing however gibberish whereas on digital camera. The movie’s blooper reel exhibits Catherine Bell (who portrayed Evan’s co-anchor) barely capable of get by means of a take with out cracking up. The scene shot Carell to superstardom.
The Office alum later revealed that there was a scene so intense it didn’t even make the ultimate lower.
“The part they cut out is when Jim Carrey makes my nose start to bleed profusely, which they thought [was] too mean of him to do as a character … and then my head burst into flames,” Carell revealed on The Graham Norton Show in 2020, revealing they ran a “real live” fuel line down his again and a coil on his head for the impact. Flames got here taking pictures out.
“That was the most terrifying thing ever because you could hear them venting the gas line before it happened. I could see the crew in front of me, they all lit up because the flame was so bright,” the Beautiful Boy actor recalled, including that because the movie was his large break, he wasn’t going to cease them.
“(It was) my first movie,” he shared. “What was I gonna say, ‘I’m not gonna do it’? ‘Of course! Sure! Light me on fire! Sounds terrific!’”
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